Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 606 747
Rank change year-on-year -66 +141 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 114 86 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.19% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 81 61 48
10th Percentile £56,250 - £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £90,000 - £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 101,050 44,873 78,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.93% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,068 26,506 52,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -4.00% -6.54%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -78 104 £72,500 -6.45% 24
UK excluding London -48 56 £72,500 +20.83% 13
London -76 52 £80,000 +1.59% 12
Work from Home -24 47 £70,000 +9.38% 9
East of England -2 19 £72,500 -3.33% 5
North of England -22 18 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Midlands -17 10 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands - 10 £70,000 -
North East - 9 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 6 £75,000 -
Yorkshire -30 5 £70,000 +16.67% 2
North West -13 4 £80,000 +33.33% 2
South East -33 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £58,565 -

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 August 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 114 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (51.75%) AWS
3 35 (30.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (29.82%) AI
5 32 (28.07%) Software Engineering
6 29 (25.44%) CI/CD
7 26 (22.81%) Test Automation
8 25 (21.93%) RESTful
9 22 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (16.67%) Azure
11 18 (15.79%) API Design
11 18 (15.79%) Validation
12 17 (14.91%) Generative AI
12 17 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (14.04%) Observability
14 15 (13.16%) Agile
14 15 (13.16%) Event-Driven
15 14 (12.28%) Continuous Delivery
15 14 (12.28%) OO
15 14 (12.28%) OOP
15 14 (12.28%) React
15 14 (12.28%) Swagger
16 13 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (11.40%) JavaScript
16 13 (11.40%) Kubernetes
16 13 (11.40%) Linux
16 13 (11.40%) Serverless
17 12 (10.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
17 12 (10.53%) C++

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.88%) Apache
1 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 59 (51.75%) AWS
2 19 (16.67%) Azure
3 13 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (11.40%) Serverless
4 10 (8.77%) SaaS
5 7 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.39%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.39%) GitHub
7 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.88%) Dagster
10 1 (0.88%) GCP
10 1 (0.88%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.65%) Broadband
2 7 (6.14%) MQTT
3 2 (1.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.14%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.75%) GIS
6 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Git
2 2 (1.75%) GitLab
2 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) MLflow
General
1 18 (15.79%) Finance
2 14 (12.28%) Front Office
2 14 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.65%) Games
3 11 (9.65%) Health Technology
4 10 (8.77%) Tech for Good
5 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.51%) Banking
6 4 (3.51%) Publishing
7 3 (2.63%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.75%) Law
9 1 (0.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.93%) RESTful
2 14 (12.28%) React
2 14 (12.28%) Swagger
3 12 (10.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 12 (10.53%) FastAPI
4 10 (8.77%) Node.js
5 9 (7.89%) Flask
6 7 (6.14%) Kafka
6 7 (6.14%) OpenAPI
6 7 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (5.26%) HTML
8 5 (4.39%) Vue
9 4 (3.51%) CSS
9 4 (3.51%) Next.js
9 4 (3.51%) Terraform
10 3 (2.63%) Django
10 3 (2.63%) NumPy
10 3 (2.63%) Pandas
10 3 (2.63%) REST
10 3 (2.63%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.04%) Algorithms
3 13 (11.40%) Data Structures
3 13 (11.40%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (10.53%) Equities
4 12 (10.53%) Hedge funds
4 12 (10.53%) Management Information System
5 11 (9.65%) Low-Code
5 11 (9.65%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (4.39%) Educational Technology
6 5 (4.39%) PropTech
7 3 (2.63%) NHS
8 2 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.75%) Derivative
8 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (29.82%) AI
3 32 (28.07%) Software Engineering
4 29 (25.44%) CI/CD
5 26 (22.81%) Test Automation
6 22 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.79%) API Design
7 18 (15.79%) Validation
8 17 (14.91%) Generative AI
9 16 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (14.04%) Observability
10 15 (13.16%) Agile
10 15 (13.16%) Event-Driven
11 14 (12.28%) Continuous Delivery
11 14 (12.28%) OO
11 14 (12.28%) OOP
12 12 (10.53%) Low Latency
12 12 (10.53%) Machine Learning
12 12 (10.53%) Order Management
13 11 (9.65%) AIOps
Programming Languages
1 114 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (11.40%) JavaScript
3 12 (10.53%) C++
4 11 (9.65%) Go
4 11 (9.65%) SQL
5 9 (7.89%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.75%) Rust
7 1 (0.88%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) Bicep
7 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.75%) Degree
1 2 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (9.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) Grafana
2 1 (0.88%) Puppet